Shares of Millennial Media, the second-largest mobile ad firm in the U.S., opened at $25 on the New York Stock Exchange this morning, up from an initial price of $13.
While its major competitors Quattro Wireless and AdMob were bought …
We’ve been hearing that Amazon is working on a powerful 10-inch tablet since before the Kindle Fire’s launch, but now it appears that the company may have many more in the works.
Amazon could launch between two and four new …
Self-driving cars are one of the projects that remind you of the good old days of Google, when the company was more focused on quirky “twenty-percent-time” projects than playing catch up in the social networking space. While the cars are …
Google updated its Maps application to version 6.5 for Android today, and with the update comes a new Navigation home screen for Ice Cream Sandwich users, faster maps on high-pixel-density devices, and new public-transit options.
The most noticeable part of …
Google has wasted no time taking advantage of its newfound ability to pool consumer data across all products, thanks to controversial privacy policy changes, and is today releasing a not-so-scary utility for its users.
On Wednesday, Google announced the release …
Google is showing off some new Hangout-themed apps today. From play games and goofing around to getting serious work done, the apps use the Google+ social video tool to make the most of face-to-face, real-time interaction.
New Hangout games include …
The European Union competition commission is expected to release its finding on whether Google violated antitrust regulations in the next few days, according to a new letter from consumer rights group the European Consumer Organisation (BEUC).
Back in November 2010, …
New research out today from Google finds that even when a brand is ranked number one for search on an organic basis, they can get 50% more clicks on average by paying up for an accompanying ad.
The report is …
Creating and managing a wiki can take work. It requires a special syntax to format your text and build out the wiki how you’d like it. Hackpad is trying to make the wiki fresh again, with real-time updating and no …
By upgrading to the latest version of Android, HTC Vivid owners will see huge performance bumps with their smartphones — a sign that other Android phones could see similar gains.
AT&T slowly began pushing out an Android 4.0 update, commonly …
The intensely popular Harry Potter novels are now available for sale as e-books for the first time through J.K. Rowling’s Pottermore website.
Pottermore was announced last June as a site where Potter fans can interact with each other and as …
Google may be getting ready to launch its own third-party commenting system that will tie into the company’s other services.
According to a report from The Next Web, Google’s commenting system is said to be heavily integrated with its Google+ …
Google’s long-awaited Drive cloud storage service might finally arrive during the first week of April, according to a thinly sourced GigaOM report.
In early February, we heard that Google would soon launch a cloud storage service similar to Dropbox, Box, …
Tickets for Google’s I/O developers conference sold out in less than 30 minutes on Tuesday morning, even with regular tickets costing $900 a piece and academic tickets running $300 a pop.
Last year’s tickets for I/O sold out in less …
Bluestacks’ grand vision of letting you run Android apps on Windows is one step closer to reality. The company today has released a free beta version of its software, which now supports most of Android’s 450,000 apps.
The new release …
A company that makes 96 percent of its revenue from advertising is becoming a massive media buyer itself — and in a far more traditional sense than one might at first anticipate.
In 2011, Google spent nearly $70 million on …
Chances are, if you’ve shopped at Home Depot or gone to McDonald’s lately, you’ve seen one of ViVOTech’s credit card readers. The company, which develops hardware and software for digital wallets and mobile payments, announced a new round of funding …
Google released an annual energy report for its data centers Monday, claiming that by measuring energy consumption, its data centers are 50 percent more efficient than other companies’.
Tucked away in Douglas County, Georgia, next to a Six Flags theme …
A Japanese court has issued a provisional order today for Google to delete specific terms from its autocomplete search feature.
The decision was based on a man’s claim that the autocomplete results for his name were associated with over 10,000 …
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Sahas Katta, owner of a Galaxy Nexus Android smartphone, strolled into Microsoft’s Santa Clara, Calif. store on Sunday to compete in the company’s widely-publicized “Smoked by Windows Phone Contest” — but he walked out cheated of a victory by the …
